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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
PAGE 
Agents wanted.,.3(58 
Anecdote, with a lesson.358 
Agricultural Society of New-York State.353 
Babylon, Fertility of the Plains of.362 
Bathing and Washing Establishment, People’s.362 
Blackberry, Lawton’s. 363 
Boquet, Winter, (Poetry).;.358 
Boys, Story of.358 
Breadstuff and Provisions.361 
Brief Notes on a Homely Text.369 
Business, How to prosper in...359 
Canadian Agriculture.363 
Children’s Sayings.358 
Cultivation, Gratuitous.362 
Dogs, distemper in..,.364 
Dogs, Remarkable.362 
Employers, A Word to.362 
Farm Horses, Improvement of..354 
Fop, What is a.359 
Gazeteer of the United States, Fanning’s.361 
Geological Surveys, Benefits of..361 
Geology, Hitchcock’s Elements.361 
Grass, Drying, (Artificially).360 
Guano of fish.357 
Hair Mixture, Gen. Twiggs’.360 
Hawthorn's Style.359 
Hay, feeding animals with.357 
Horses, improvement of Farm...,.354 
How, much did he leave...358 
Horticultural Society of New-York.354 
Humbugs, Gen. Twiggs’ mixture.360 
Insurance Decision, Important.357 
Judges, One of the.359 
Lard, Rendering.359 
Lead in Hair Mixtures, salves, &c.360 
Markets.364 
“ Remarks upon.364 
“ Review of British Corn Trade. 364 
“ Review of Continental Corn Trade.364 
“ New-York Produce.365 
“ Cattle.365 
Odors, Theory of.362 
One, Only.358 
Patent, Claims, Agricultural.363 
Pathetic.364 
Peace breaking in America.359 
Peaches, Great profit of.357 
Pears on Quinces.360 
Price Current.366 
Pie-Crust, Light.359 
Pigeon Roast.363 
Politeness, Domestic...359 
Potatoes.362 
Poultry, High price for.361 
“ Show National.361 
“ Society of New-York State.361 
Sarsaparilla Plant.353 
Seen, I am...364 
Sheep, Extraordinary Endurance of hunger by.356 
Smoke, How t o pass through. 359 
Starch, Fine Glossy 359 
tep Forward, 359 
States, how named.364 
Thirst, New Way to quench 364 
Thought, Pretty Little.358 
Turnips, Feeding properties of 355 
Vermont 357 
Weather, Sudden Change in 358 
Economical Arrangement! to furnish other 
Periodicals. 
Arrangements have been made with several Publishers 
to furnish their periodicals in connection with the Ameri¬ 
can. Agriculturist at reduced prices. Read the following: 
The American Agritulturist will be furnished 
with Harper’s Magazine, one year for 
- $4 00 
“ Putnam's do 
do 
- 4 00 
“ Knickerbocker 
do - - - 
4 00 
“ Eclectic do 
do 
- 6 00 
" Littel's Living Age 
do - - 
6 00 
“ National Magazine 
do 
- 3 50 
,k Dickens’s Household Words 
3 50 
“ Scientific American 
do 
- 3 00 
“ Weekly Tribune 
do - 
3 00 
“ Weekly Times 
do 
- 3 00 
Any other magazine, literary, scientific, agricultural, or 
horticultural, will be furnished at the same ratio of reduction 
from subscription prices; also the daily or weekly journals 
or newspapers published in this city. 
ALLEN & CO., 
189 Water street, New-York. 
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requested to act as Agents forjthe American Agriculturist. 
Those sending their address and business card to the Pub¬ 
lishers will receive specimen copies, and a statement of com¬ 
missions paid. 
Liberal commissions will also be allowe to a few young 
men to act as travelling agents. 
For further information address the Publishers, or call at 
their office, 189 Water street, New-York. 
J. A, GRAY, Printer, 95 and 97 Cliff street, N. Y- 
PUBLISHERS’ ANNOUNCEMENT! 
Eleventh Volume of 
THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST, 
THE LEADING WEEKLY AGRICULTURAL PAPER OF THE COUNTRY. 
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THE AG-HICUIjT'JmiST, 
A weekly Periodical of 10 large quarto pages, making an annual volume of 832 pages oj 
nearly double the size of those in the first ten volumes of the Agriculturist. 
It is beautifully printed with type cast expressly for it, and on the best of clear white paper, with 
wide margin, so that the numbers can he easily stitched or bound together. 
A copious Index is weekly added, which will be fully amplified at tlie end of the year for tlie bound 
work. 
COMPREHENSIVE IN ITS CHARACTER, 
Each volume will contain all matter worth recording, which transpires either at home or abroad, 
and which can serve to instruct or interest tlie Farmer, the Planter, the Fruit-Grower, the Gardener, 
and the Stock-Breeder; thus making it the most complete and useful Agricultural Publication of the 
day. 
CORRECT AND VALUABLE MARKET REPORTS. 
The Markets will he carefully reported, giving the actual transactions which take place from week 
to week, in Grain, Provisions, Cattle, &c., thus keepiug our readers constantly and reliably advised 
as to their interests. During the past year the knowledge obtained from these Market Reports alone, 
has saved our readers thousands of dollars, by informing them of the best time to sell or purchase. 
SUCH A PAPER IS DEMANDED BY THE FARMING COMMUNITY.' 
!The Publishers confidently believe that the agriculturists of this country are becoming too much 
awake to the demands of their own calling, to tie longer satisfied with the slow monthly issues of a 
paper professedly devoted to their interests, or to trust aloDe to the irresponsible extracts in a “farmer’s 
column,” so popular just now in papers chiefly devoted to business, politics, or literature; and they 
look for tlie united support of all the intelligent farmers of this country in their continued effort to fur¬ 
nish a weekly paper of high and reliable character, which shall he progressive, and at the same time 
cautious and conservative in all its teachings. 
ESSENTIALLY AN AGRICULTURAL PAPER. 
The Agriculturist will not depart from its legitimate sphere to catch popular favor by lumbering 
up its pages with the silly, fictitious literature, and light, miscellaneous matter of the day; it has a 
higher aim ; and a small'part only of its space will he devoted to matters not immediately pertaining 
to the great business of agriculture. The household as well as the out-door work of the farm will re¬ 
ceive a due share of attention. The humbugs and nostrums afloat in the community will be tried by 
reliable scientific rules, and their worthlessness exposed. It is the aim of the publishers to keep this 
paper under the guidance of those who will make it a standard work, which shall communicate to its 
readers only that which is safe and reliable. 
AN INDEPENDENT JOURNAL. 
The American Agriculturist stands upon its own merits; and the truthfulness, zeal and ability which 
it brings to the support of the interests of the farmer. It is untrammeled by any collateral business 
connections whatever; nor is it the organ of any clique, or the puffing machine of any man or thing. 
Thoroughly independent in all points, its ample pages are studiously given alone to tlie support and 
improvement of the great agricultural class. 
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT. 
The American Agriculturist is under the editorial supervision of Mr. A. B. Allen,— its principal 
editor for the first ten years—and Mr. Okange Judd, A.M., a thoroughly practical farmer and agricul¬ 
tural chemist 
They will be assisted by Prof. Nash, who lias been for a long time one of the most successful 
farmers of New-England, and is now Agricultural Professor of Amherst College; Rev. Wm. Clift, 
widely known as a pleasing and instructive writer on gardening and other departments of practical 
agriculture, and, in addition to these, a number of other eminent agricultural writers. 
All the editors are men practically experienced in their profession, each of whom can handle the - 
Plow as well as the Pen. 
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will contain suggestions for the treatment of soils, manures, crops, stock, <fcc., which will often be 
worth to the reader more than the cost of the paper for a year. 
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